Contagious Gaming, a developer of software solutions for the lottery and gaming sectors, has announced that its Contagious Sports subsidiary has entered into a licensing agreement with content provider Manyx Interactive.

Kalixa, the payment service provider wholly owned by online gaming operator bwin.party, has established a joint venture with Millicom, a telecommunications and media company dedicated to emerging markets in Latin America and Africa.

The global gambling sector grew 4.9% in 2013 and generated €317.6bn in gross win, a figure that is set to rise to €332.4bn in 2014 and then on to €395bn by 2018, iGaming Business’s exclusive data partner H2 Gambling Capital has revealed in the second of the four data-led articles it is publishing this week.